Introduction Timothy Bewes and Timothy Hall; Part I: Extensions; 1. Georg Lukacs and Franz Kafka: On Critical Realism Michael Lowy; 2. Critical Realisms of Contemporary Art Gail Day; 3. Allan Sekula's "Novelistic Fantasy": Literary Realism and Photographic Art Andrew Fisher; 4. Capitalism and The Theory of the Novel David Cunningham; 5. The Historical Novel After Lukacs John Marx; 6.L'art pour l'art and Proletarian Writing Georg Lukacs, (trans. Andrew Hemingway and Frederic J. Schwartz); 7. The Significance of l'art pour l'art in the Development of Lukacs's Thought, 1907-26 Andrew Hemingway; Part II: Reframings; 8. Science and Technology in the Early Marxist Writings of Marx and Lukacs Andrew Feenberg; 9. Novelty or Identity? Lukacs's conception of Critical Social Theory Timothy Hall; 10. Lukacs sans Proletariat, or Can History and Class Consciousness be Re-historicized? Neil Larsen; 11. Capitalist Life in Lukacs Stewart Martin; 12. Typing Class: On the Irreducibility of Form in Lukacs's Social, Literary and Aesthetic Theory Patrick Eiden-Offe; 13. Realism, Form, and Possibility: Lukacs on the Everyday Yoon Sun Lee; 14. How to Escape from Literature? Lukacs, Cinema, and The Theory of the Novel Timothy Bewes; Appendix; 15. The Age of Inhumanity (Preface to Probleme des Realismus III) Georg Lukacs (trans. Zachary Sng); Index.
Communist aesthetics.
Lukc̀s, Gyr̲gy, -- 1885-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation.